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The Marketplace is a weekly podcast posted every Sunday and hosted by Priest Willis, Sr. The podcast is created with you in mind and talks with a variety of industry leaders in business, education, music, sports, comedy, entrepreneurship and more!

Apr 8, 2018

Today my guest who goes by Dr. Bee and I take on Cannabidiol also known as CBD Oil and Anti Marijuana Propaganda.cannabis legal sales states

Dr. Bee is a proud Air Force Veteran, former federal police officer, college professor, turned cannabis entrepreneur. Dr. Bee has over 25 years of sales, marketing & management. She actually help grow a dispensery to $5M. She's now the co-founder of Hemplogica and Buycbd.net which founded in 2014. She's part of a group of cannabis authorities that searched the world over to find the best CBD Oil products on the market, worthy to sell on Hemplogica and Buycbd.net. In this interview we discuss Dr. Bee's journey in the industry, the health benefits of CBD oil, anti marijuana propaganda and more.

Mar 26, 2018

Courtney Reum and his brother Carter are former Goldman Sachs investment bankers, entrepreneurs, operators, and investors. Courtney and Carter started their careers working on deals ranging from Under Armour to Vitamin Water and have since left to pursue careers as both Entrepreneurs and new age VCs.

After co-founding and eventually successfully selling VEEV Spirits, Courtney and Carter started M13, a 21st century investing platform that seeks to affect outcomes for founders, partners, and investors by institutionalizing the process of scaling consumer-centric brands. Courtney and Carter currently live in Los Angeles, where they run day-to-day operations at M13.

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Courtney discusses his and Carter's book “Shortcut Your Startup” (an Amazon #1 best-seller) and ways to turn traditional advice on its head for better startup success. Listen for these action items you can use to take advantage of and help shape your business today!

Courtney and I discuss;

  • The influence of their father
  • Learning valuable lessons on Wall Street
  • The show Hatched
  • Criteria in looking for investment opportunities
  • Why this (another) business book...'Shortcut Your Startup'
  • Speedboat vs. Sailboat

and much more!

Other Links:

Book 'Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches'

INC Articles: https://www.inc.com/author/carter-and-courtney-reum

Mar 17, 2018

Former NBA player Mark Blount continues to be successful off the court while being a phenomenal small business owner and real estate investor. Having a professional basketball career for 10 years, Mark Blount has played center for the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics, just to name a few.

He recently did an interview on The Undefeated and said “I owned quite a bit of real estate in Palm Beach Gardens — seven build

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ings. I went in there with a friend of mine. We renovated them, all the units there, and brought them back up to, back then it was 2012 code: new bathrooms, new floors, new kitchens and all that stuff,”. Blount then joined the soft-pretzel franchise Auntie Anne’s. He opened two stores in West Palm Beach and one in Jensen Beach, Florida. After building and operating the franchises for four years, he sold the stores to focus on real estate. He purchased them for a little under $700,000 and sold them for about $2M.

Mark and I discussed;

  • Growing up and balling in NYC
  • His first big contract
  • Playing basketball overseas
  • Avoiding the financial traps as an athlete
  • First investment after his basketball career
  • His business in real estate and getting into franchising
  • and much more!

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Mar 10, 2018

Sri Sharma is CEO and Co-founder of Increasingly, the AI product bundling technology company.
Previously, Sri founded and sold two digital marketing technology businesses. He has won National Business Awards’ highly commended Entrepreneur of the Year, Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and Deloitte Tech Fast 50. Most recently, he won a Google awarded scholarship to study AI and futuristic technology at NASA.

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Sri and I discuss;

  • How he started online?
  • Past business ventures
  • First "super affiliate" venture turning into a full business
  • Current business ventures
  • What criteria he follows when looking for investment opportunities
  • Steps he takes to find peace when business has challenging times
  • How to create demand for a product that the market doesn’t necessarily know they have a need for
  • and much more!

 

Mar 3, 2018

Brian Smith was born in Australia, where he developed his love of surfing. A chartered accountant, he studied at the UCLA Graduate School of Management, and with $500 of start-up money, he founded UGG Imports to bring sheepskin footwear to America. 

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A passionate innovator and entrepreneur, Brian is one of the most sought after business leaders in the country today. As a media guest and inspiring speaker, he is committed to teaching his breakthrough business strategies to entrepreneurs and translating personal vision and spirituality into company culture.

Brian and I discuss;

  • The motivation for business
  • Bringing a trend from Australia to California
  • Challenges he overcame in the early days like getting distribution for his product
  • How exercise and meditation helps him manage stress in business
  • How to create demand for a product that the market doesn’t necessarily know it "needs".
  • The brand re-alignment that created the tipping point for Ugg's
  • His four mantras for business.
  • Important things to understand if your goal is to build an iconic brand
  • and more...

Other Links:

The Birth of a Brand (book)

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Feb 25, 2018

For most of his life, John Cronin completed his outfits with a pair of wild socks. His older brothers often asked dad, Mark Cronin, to curb their little brother's outrageous style. But John simply ignored them.

The 21-year-old Long Island man has Down syndrome. As high school graduation loomed, he began considering what he wanted to do with his future. He knew that he wanted to start a business with his dad but wasn’t sure what type. At first, he thought he wanted to have a “fun” store; though he wasn't sure what he would sell. Then John thought a food truck seemed cool.

“One of the problems, me and my dad, both can’t cook,” John said. “Both of us are good at eating.”

But then John realized that he could turn his love of socks into a business.

“I wanted to do something fun and creative,” he said.

In November 2016, John and Cronin settled on the name of the business, John’s Crazy Socks, and designed a website and logo.

During 2017, John's Crazy Socks pulled in $1.75 million in gross sales, representing 42,710 separate orders. The online store sells 1,500 different kinds of socks, giving shoppers a lot of options from which to choose. Their inventory includes colorful variants of classic shapes including no-show, ankle, crew, knee high, and above the knee socks.

John's Crazy Socks also now employs a dozen full-time staff members, eight of which have some form of diagnosed disability.

HAPPINESS THROUGH SOCKS.
John's Crazy Socks four principles for business success:

1. Inspiration: Showing what’s Possible

2. Giving Back: 5% of earnings donated to the Special Olympics

3. Socks You Can Love: Over 1,2000 awesome socks choices

4. Gratitude: Every package has a thank you note from John and some candy

Other Links: 

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (book)

Sponsor/Partnership:

Namecheap is a domain name registrar and web hosting company.

Feb 19, 2018

I was excited to sit down and have an interview with Ravinder Deol, who is a a Certified Bitcoin Professional and after absorbing a lot of his content, he has one of the more sensible approached to how we approach this new financial revolution.

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He's been involved in the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain space since 2013, and has seen it grow tremendously. He said he saw a white space in the structured education of it all. So he's taken it upon myself to help you get all the knowledge you need in one place!
Initially he started out by teaching live classes which then lead to the creation of B21 Block, where along with a team of co-instructors the goal is to bring high quality, engaging and practical Cryptocurrency and Blockchain education online. As of this date he's had over 83k students and currently 23 courses available but he's kind enough to help answer some of our questions here. So without further

Extra Resources:

Coinbase  a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency

Trezor Wallet

 

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Feb 11, 2018

Buy low, sell high. It’s a simple idea that a bored accountant used to create a multi-million dollar business, and one that he says you can replicate as a side-hustle. Ryan graduated from college, pursed a career in accounting and quickly found himself wanting more in life. It started while in college, Ryan started shopping for sales in popular retail stores and buy items in bulk. But instead of purchasing what he liked, Ryan came armed with a secret weapon...an Amazon seller's account and his phone.

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 Ryan would find sale items in Walmart, Target and Toys R Us, then used the Amazon seller app to compare them to online prices.

Eventually In 2013 Ryan quit his full-time job paying over $50K per year to pursue making a full time income selling online. His business now does over 7-figures in sales per year and he sits down with the Marketplace to discuss just how he did it.

Feb 6, 2018

Chad Carson who also goes by "Coach" proves that you that you don’t need a large down payment to get started in real estate. You can even learn “how to do one of the more important parts of the rental business on someone else’s dime” if you’re smart about it.

This episode is packed with actionable advice to help get you started with a side hustle in the real estate market, as well as some long-term options to set you on the path to building long-term wealth.

Chad and I discuss;

  • How to start making money in real estate now. Here's a hint...you have to innovate and hustle.
  • Getting into real estate with bad credit or no credibility
  • How to use house hacking to earn rental income and live for free
  • How live-in flips can build your nest egg tax-free
  • How anyone can start master leasing
  • How to become a leasing agent
  • How to start “bird-dogging”for deals
  • and much more...

You can learn more about Chad and his real estate business at CoachCarson.com, where he writes about using real estate investing to retire early and do what matters.

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Here are a few resources from Chad to help you along:

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Jan 28, 2018

Evolving SEO, a boutique SEO company located Massachusetts. Dan’s been heavily involved with SEO after starting in helping his father establish his business onlne. Dan who went to college and graduated with a degree in music switched gears after doing side work in music, started his own business and this is where the journey and evolution begins.Dan and I discuss;

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  • His love or music and his hustle beginning out of financial desperation but evolved into a real love for SEO.
  • Useless College degrees and why critical thinking and creativity should be the focus.
  • Believing everything you hear or read, how it shaped the election and the big sites getting rid of 'Fakenews'.
  • What evolving SEO is and my need to keep calling evolving CEO (geez!).
  • Approaching SEO as a beginner
  • Being strategic on what content to delete from your blog and why.
  • Google Correlate, what it does and a hidden trick.
  • Domains we’ve purchased. My latest is mensgroomingden.com. We’re willing to part with some if interested.
  • Filtering through big sites content to get topic ideas. MAJOR KEY!
  • Dan shares advanced keyword research when creating new content opportunities (download deck below).

Extras Mentioned on the Interview

Jan 21, 2018

Neil Patel from neilpatel.com also quicksprout.com. A lot of you also know him because he's the founder of Crazy Egg and Kissmetrics and a number of other tools and other great pieces of software. He's created 4 multi-million dollar businesses and he consults a lot of other great businesses, too. He's just a wealth of knowledge.neil patel, blogger, content marketer

I brought him on the show today to talk specifically about: content, managing content, how to approach content, how to know what to write about, how many articles you should launch with, if you're just launching for the first time, how often you should be blogging and putting content out there into the world, and how to make the most out it, too. We put so much hard work into our content, a lot of it just gets put into the archives or we often do too much. What's just right? I asked Neil and I pick his brain on that to help you and Neil definitely delivered on this episode.

Lastly, we talk about he more recent book Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum. This book is kind of his response to a woman who he met who told him that creating a successful company can’t be done unless you’ve already had some kind of advantage beforehand. In it, he talks about how to hustle as an entrepreneur, how to know yourself, and how to build your business.

Jan 14, 2018

uincy is a former teacher and school director who transitioned into a career in tech. He is the creator of Free Code Camp, an open source community of over 500,000 people who learn to code while building projects for nonprofits.code camps

Quincy first became interested in tech while working in China as a school director. During this time, his focus on using technology to increase efficiency led to a career change. Back in California, Quincy began attending meetups and hackathons as often as he could. His networking efforts led him to his first tech job, and eventually to his founding of Free Code Camp.

In this episode, Quincy and I discuss...

  • His career move from teaching to becoming a programmer.
  • Why he started Free Code Camp?
  • How Free Code Camp is different from paying for profit code camps?
  • Is this a Non-profit or for profit business? What’s the long term sustainability around this?
  • Is coding for everyone?
  • The process someone can expect from learning how to code, to gettting a job.
  • and much more!

You Can Do Real-World Work at This Free Coding Boot Camp
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/

Jan 7, 2018

Today my guest who goes by Dr. Bee and I take on Cannabidiol also known as CBD Oil and Anti Marijuana Propaganda.cannabis legal sales states

Dr. Bee is a proud Air Force Veteran, former federal police officer, college professor, turned cannabis entrepreneur. Dr. Bee has over 25 years of sales, marketing & management. She actually help grow a dispensery to $5M. She's now the co-founder of Hemplogica and Buycbd.net which founded in 2014. She's part of a group of cannabis authorities that searched the world over to find the best CBD Oil products on the market, worthy to sell on Hemplogica and Buycbd.net. In this interview we discuss Dr. Bee's journey in the industry, the health benefits of CBD oil, anti marijuana propaganda and more.

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